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When Michael Harrington wrote The Other America 40 years ago, he pointed out that the advent of freeways linking suburban homes to downtown offices had rendered the poverty of the inner city...

The 24/7 news coverage of the Iraq war is often riveting television, but it is not necessarily good journalism....

If good reporting can be judged by the enemies it makes, then al-Jazeera must be doing something right. The Arabic-language TV channel provoked rebukes from the U.S....

Viewers watching the fourth day of the war on al-Jazeera television would have seen these items:...

In little more than half a century international law and institutions grew from embryonic dreams into strapping adolescents. But now they stagger under an all-American punch....

"Disgusting” and “absolutely unacceptable” were the terms used by General John Abizaid to describe Iraqi and al-Jazeera television broadcasts showing dazed and wounded American prisoners of war and...

In the two decades since MTV captured the restless souls and short attention spans of our youth, it has become increasingly evident that teaching and learning require new strategies....

Here are three recent headlines about a recent release of data by the Census Bureau:...

The disciples locked in the room need help in practicing resurrection.

The risen Jesus' first witnesses didn’t just give their testimony in words. Many of them eventually offered evidence written in their own blood.

Western ideas about good cities descend from Athens, Jerusalem and Rome....

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The Survival Guide: What to Do in a Biological, Chemical, or Nuclear Emergency. By Angelo Acquista. Random House, 288 pp., $12.95....

The early years of each decade seem to bring a new spate of books on the Salem witchcraft episode, as if to commemorate anew the tragic events that occurred in 1692-93....

Many who recover from clinical depression compare regaining their mental health to a religious epiphany, albeit a slow-developing one....

When are religious leaders obligated to speak out against tyranny and atrocities? When is it prudent for them to keep silent so they can fight another day?...

Evil in Modern Thought: An Alternative History of Philosophy. By Susan Neiman. Princeton University Press, 358 pp., $29.95....

Most adult Americans know something about H. L. Mencken even without having read anything he wrote....

Ron Shelton's powerfully unsettling Dark Blue is about the coming apart of a Los Angeles cop....

Is it dangerous to dwell upon heaven? Many of the world’s great religious teachers seem to have thought so....